How to texture REALISTIC buildings in Blender

[@Ahtisham]

Bro you just gave away everything in this video, but I will buy your course anyway. You are the best teacher imo

[@animeknowledge5048]

Yes yes keep bringing this guy he is amazing!

[@ipariszalonna]

I couldn't wrap my head around texturing realistic buildings in Blender for the better part of at least a decade. It always seemed so daunting. But this video is something else. Everything just clicked and I almost feel like I get it. I'm on multiple watches and doing practice for a couple days on and off now. This is amazing, thank you.

[@Covingsworth]

I’m so glad to hear this! Thank you

[@tomali1984]

Hello, how would you take this model into a game engine? Is it possible to export the finished model and shader setup directly to a game engine? Or would you need to re-create this shader node system in your engine? Thankyou :)

[@Mstwvr]

I must say, you are by far one of the best teachers for blender out there. You don't skip quite frankly anything. The pace is perfect and there's constantly a summary of what has been done so far. Great work man, keep it going!

[@TangHan]

best tutorial to blender material so far without increasing a lot of mesh count!

[@Sairawkerh]

This is the Best tutorial i have ever seen and follow, and these is how TT should be.. Respect Team Boost

[@cgboost]

If you have questions about it, just let us know here :)

[@johanleion]

I can't believe this awesome tutorial is provided for free?! Tank you so much,

[@maximusgerardin]

Amazing to see your tutorial here Covingsworth! I watched the whole thing and never felt bored a single second, it very clear and precise, with a good tempo and we feel like we acquired a new skill at the end ;) I'd just like to add it's always a good idea to bake your textures in the very end, mostly if you're using Curvature and Ambient Occlusion maps. It helps your RAM not getting overwhelmed by too many texture files, and fasten the render for curvature and AO maps you created. Of course, do it only if you have UV's already haha, but since you showed a good tip for quick UV's (which I didn't know before watching the tutorial, so thank you for that), it should be a fun process.

[@pepethegood]

The first tutorial i found that shows on how to really make a complex textures and everything and not just some simple cube, love it

[@sonerdemir1078]

You are by far one of the best teachers for blender out there. This is amazing, thank you

[@MelvilleG]

Thanks for the video. Using the similar pipeline. Only in the end you also bake all the materials into one set of PBR maps to assemble your assets in a game engine. But Blender rocks once you realize the degree of subtle control and the ability to change every aspect of the material using this pipeline.

[@momentiummonroe1475]

You know I didn't think this was actually going to work out with my models, but this node tree is real smart. Super helpful video. The UV's are a little fiddly when you're trying to use a texture atlas, but it can be done. Great video

[@SpoonsXownXsinceX92]

Beautiful work

[@doncocor]

This tutorial is so well put together. You take your time to show us what's what.

[@dansdaily3489]

Easily one of the most helpful tutorials for blender that I've watched!

[@kliegstudio]

Amazing Workflow and Clear Explanation - Awesome :)

[@Covingsworth]

Thanks!

[@jacobstone520]

I felt like I would NEVER understand shaders! EXCELLENT tutorial!!

[@MrFusselig]

Coming from the video short, it was giving a great overview what this video is about. Great use of the KZbin shorts :)

[@Uirou617]

11:01 You can automatically use a selected face as a mask using vertex paint without having to draw by hand. Detailed instructions can be found in Blender guru's How to make an abandoned house in Blender - Tutorial 16:00.

[@szymonnalepka7096]

Cov I cannot thank you enough. For once i actually understood how to texture an mix all of that shit. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

[@SuperDaDaD]

Blender really need a layer system for shaders, that level of spaghetti nodes for a super basic "color variation"+"wear"+"Decals" is ridicolous

[@PASTRAMIKick]

node and layer based systems are at odds with each other, it's always one or the other, I don't know if blender would ever add such a system. People switch to the substance programs for texturing and shading.

[@dagoelius]

there are add-on paks that do it without the need for manual spaghetti setup.

[@aminuteofhappiness6852]

Blender needs to take a look on texture painting improvements to at least have an alternative to substance painter, so we don't need to make too many nodes for just these materials. I'm okay with making it as long as there's a tutorial like this one. I noticed that blender is more focused on geometry nodes, for me it's way too hard to learn as it's a visual programming tool, I should focus on creativity rather than doing geo nodes setup.

[@Toskyval]

Check PBR Painter v2.4 by ByteBrush Studio, the next 3.0 version will make it even better

[@TheRealKeetHarris]

What are the add one? ​@@dagoelius

[@ukaszFudala]

What an amazing guide to more comprehensively, but at the same time clearly understand a more in depth material set up process! Many thanks and keep at it man, great stuff! :)

[@williamsjasper4953]

Great tutorial!!! Thanks guys, you' re amazing!

[@Kichoooz-j5y]

the definate tutorial every concept artist should watch

[@romain4520]

I am amazed by this video. The best shader tutorial for creating the color of a building! excellent ! Thanks a lot !

[@tdombui]

this was the part of my project that I was dreading. Thank you for making this.

[@nixonmanuel6459]

I can’t wait until someone creates a wonderful addon to do all this as well. I bet one already exists. Still it’s great knowing how to do this from scratch!

[@cgboost]

You probably can find some add-ons on that topic on the Blender Market: blendermarket.com/

[@moonghostly]

Wow! That's so awesome! Thank you for this tutorial!

[@collinsk8754]

Excellent tutorial!

[@RishitKaushik-t3x]

Its important to note that this AO and edgewear mask only works in Cycles Render Engine. If you want to replicate it in EEVEE use ambient occlusion node.

[@jensgerntholtz4041]

Excellent video, I love seeing the various workflows of different 3D domains. Fascinating!

[@adiiiiii1]

Wow , lots of great tips in this one. Thanks for sharing!

[@killer271007]

Just what I needed. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@dappyducks]

it was bit hard to understand at first but as i see it 2 to 3 times i can understand it better as how the nodes can be stacked to get best outcome

[@euclois]

1:18 did you take those ref pics? i actually worked on one of those buildings while working for an architectural studio, in largo do terreirinho in lisbon, i recognize it. i used to walk there everyday

[@ealy3545]

You are a legend this blows my mind

[@frankb4793]

Thank you for taking the time to make this great Tut!

[@ParkerLearnsStuff]

Fantastic video. Very easy to follow along and the work flow is extremely organized.

[@sonerdemir954]

Bro this is a great video. It was very helpful

[@DaneBadenhorst]

This was a great tutorial.

[@foolingshappy3447]

WOW THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[@AdamZadig]

Amazing guide. Thank you.

[@ЕкатеринаПодольская-ц1г]

Cool tutorial! Thank you so much for making this.

[@digitalbase9396]

Excellent video, very well explained

[@robertdouble559]

Greeeeeaaat vid mate. Top shelf work.

[@niketanchavan020]

It is such a great tutorial. Got to know the insight and workflow.

[@an1_mate]

thanks a lot! im trying to have all my workflow completly in blender this tut is amazing

[@cesurdalms]

I always say you you are very good designer

[@graemeh6345]

I really appreciated how you broke that down and explained it so well!!! Thank you and keep up the great work. 👍

[@Noble5Consultants]

Thankyou for sharing extremely knowledgeable contents. Please share about lighting realism in detail. Thankyou

[@rudra_anand]

Amazed by this workflow! Great video :)

[@toxicsludge77]

Brilliant video, and expertly explained. Well done again guys!

[@kuniklo-igc]

obrigado pelo vídeo e por compartilhar conosco seu conhecimento, nunca tinha visto uma explicação tão detalhada e bem feita. tudo de melhor pra vc.

[@dertobbe1176]

3:43 could you make a short tutorial in how to bake those Informations to textures? So that you can bake all the stuff from the blender Material to diffuse and normal and maybe to height mal

[@LupusMechanicus]

Ya they never cover actual game ready workflow it's kinda frustrating/laughable. No I am not paying money for anything that isn't specifically focused on making game assets.

[@mathaeis]

This is freaking rad.

[@marcusaurelius3611]

thank you very much, i was looking for something like that for like a month

[@SumNumber]

Cool little building ! The Box idea is new to me and I will try it . Looks good. Awesome tutorial ! :O)

[@HazelNicolaQuantock]

Where are the grunge textures? I can't find them at any of the links in the description.

[@skyline3d]

this tutorial is a goldmine thanks!

[@ArcticAdder]

Outstanding tutorial! Thank you so much for making this.

[@artisanjpeg]

Great info, thank you! Looking forward to your course once I finish Blender Launch Pad.

[@amitbt69]

Beautiful video. Thanks!

[@TRIPTISHARMA-qs3sj]

this is wayy too beautiful

[@evilotis01]

i learned SO MUCH from this video. thank you!

[@FhayAlonso]

excellent video, very clearly explained, I could suggest as a complement to show how to import your finished model correctly and without errors into an engine like unreal

[@shadows1235]

I would love to see this into a game ready assets. I feel like it will help boost more creativity!

[@mikeundo2310]

AMAZING! Kudos for you!!! ;)

[@89ZY]

The explanation is very detailed and very easy to be a learning medium, thank you for sharing 😊😊

[@abdennacer6329]

amazing tuturial

[@techxippo535]

Great work ❤

[@FredLespine]

Brilliant work, very clearly explained. Thank you !

[@jacknight3690]

Dammn, that is such a great job! Amazin tut

[@vaineislive4798]

now u have to teach how to bake it with good resolution for a game engine, including displacement/bump map for low poly model lol awesome tutorial, thanks a lot!!

[@constantineskliris]

Good work

[@nasserahmad4653]

I never used Blender before, but I would like to learn for I can flow you, thank you for sharing the files

[@TenzDelek]

personally for me substance painter is the way to go for texturing. I tend to love the layer based approach rather than node😀

[@AmberSantana-is3dq]

I bought substance painter never used it

[@TenzDelek]

@@AmberSantana-is3dq 🤨

[@wavy9703]

Fantastic tutorial. Please, where can i download the brush and decals from

[@cgboost]

Hi here you can get the project files: : www.cgboost.com/resources

[@kraig800i]

I really liked the results and your format of tutorial is great to follow along with so that's a big plus. I would want to export the final results to Godot though as a GLTF or OBJ but seem to be having issues with anything that isn't PBR based. Would you be able to make a tutorial on how to best approach taking this building into a game platform? Specifically Godot since Unity and Unreal seem to have easier work flows but my computer can't handle either of those.

[@Znop]

The best way I can think to do that would be baking all the texture nodes into texture maps (One for the main building and one for the Mashrabiya). Blender lets you bake everything you'd need like the AO, roughness, displacement etc. Just search "Blender bake texture nodes" and follow along one of the tutorials (Ryan King Art's tutorial is great). Then theoretically all you'd need to do is bring in your OBJ into Godot and use the baked materials inside the engine

[@conorsvfx]

great video! I need to update my buildings so this came at a good time

[@ahmedteeka]

amazing!

[@vf3d]

Legendary tutorial

[@samgoldwater]

Covi is fantastic 😊

[@adeotiolayinka8253]

great work

[@Tincoco_]

i would take this as more of a showcase of his workflow rather than a tutorial. I know he said he wouldnt be going far into detail but the way he then started explaining stuff in decent detail, then just vaguely did other stuff felt odd, until i had to remind myself that it wasnt really as "tutorial" if it makes sense

[@AstroEarthly-e8e]

Very useful tutorial, i have a question, why did you add a grunge texture as a factor instead of a noise texture? is there any difference?

[@Helam_iart]

dudde this so awesomeee

[@ButterfaceGMusicSlump]

Who is this guy? Spiderman?! Amazing vid.

[@CodeJos]

Great tut!

[@cakraaji4436]

this shit convinced me to buy the course, awesome tutorial!

[@3TQHAJSHNQ]

Thanks for this! Would you consider making this tutorial using nodes in Unreal Engine 5?

[@namuzed]

Really concise video man! Knew most of this, but nice having it in one vid. There's definitely a lot of extra optimization steps you'd take if you were using this in a bigger production. Smushing all the masks together in splat map image file is something I do as I get near the end.

[@diminishedreturn]

Stopping quickly at around 8 minutes to say: at this point, when you've created what you call your 'base shader', I suggest that you should only have one PBSDF at this point. All the color, roughness and bump variations can be mixed on the texture level and drive a single SHADER. Mixing shaders like you do is less performant and not optimised. You are basically just mixing either color information or black/white values to drive roughness and bump. Do all of that work before the first PBSDF. Just a tip. ADDED: btw, I'm only adding this since this is official CG Boost where people might come to learn 'best practices'. Since it works for you and you probably don't see any performance issues on a scene of this small scale it's still fine. 100% meant as "constructive criticism". 👍🏻

[@girugaymesh]

Amazing tutorial and stunningly beautiful results! One question though: Do you also have a workflow of baking all of this, so it can be used in a game engine like Unreal?

[@eligijuspranskunas3509]

brilliant!

[@FLyyVFx]

First of all, thank you for your tutorial, which has given me a much better understanding of how to texture an object. I just have a problem with some of the textures from polyhaven. The image returned on my object and in length what it makes that I have a smoothed texture, is what somebody would have a solution?

[@xiqui3697]

hello, when I control + g and group the settings from the first texture, the whole group is called 'node group' instead of group output and I can't link the BSDF propieties for the second texture there :(

[@Swiftly.]

Me too bro

[@beerusdestroyer4302]

I think that takes you just inside the group at first, make sure no node is selected and right click on an empty space and exit group option you will see , click that

[@K1N3RGY]

Anyone know why my wall turns out pink instead of the intended color? Using Cycles to render. Fixed: Shader (for the missing mats) > File > External Data > Find Missing Files > Direct towards where textures are stored > Find Missing Files (bottom right)

[@eals3d2715]

Bro your tutorial is soooooooooo gooooooood... But I have a question, is there a way to optimize all 4k textures that used?

[@eals3d2715]

Ohh I can bake the textures right

[@danteb5978]

This is really fucking impressive stuff.

[@noname-name_no]

Lovely 🎉 But I don't find decals and another think in to discription((

[@cgboost]

Hi, you can get them here www.cgboost.com/resources in the KZbin tutorials and project files section. ~ Masha